'Lavender': The AI machine directing Israel's bombing in Gaza

Post by shmatt » Wed, Apr 03, 2024, 6:18 PM UTC

janice1999 wrote: post #37

shmatt wrote: post #20

I suggest everyone listen to the current season of the Serial podcast. >processing masses of data to rapidly identify potential “junior” operatives to target. Four of the sources said that, at one stage early in the war, Lavender listed as many as 37,000 Palestinian men who had been linked by the AI system to Hamas or PIJ. This is really no different than how the world was working in 2001 and choosing who to send to…

> how the world was working in 2001 By the world you mean the US, but yes you are correct. "NSA targets SIM cards for drone strikes, ‘Death by unreliable metadata’" https://www.computerworld.com/article/2475921/whistleblower-...

Post by NarcissistDev » Wed, Apr 03, 2024, 6:18 PM UTC

dang wrote: post #256

JeremyNT wrote: post #138

Earlier quoted context omitted.

This is the now-flagged to death HN thread on the Guardian version [0] I would hope they can be unflagged and merged, this appears to be an important story about a novel use of technology. [0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39917727

Yes. We've merged that thread hither.

Post by [deleted] » Wed, Apr 03, 2024, 6:19 PM UTC

contemporary343 wrote: post #254

I’m really not sure why this got flagged. It seemed like a well sourced and technology-focused article. Independent of this particular conflict, such automated decision making has long been viewed as inevitable. If even a small fraction of what is being reported is accurate it is extraordinarily disturbing.

Post by myth_drannon » Wed, Apr 03, 2024, 6:19 PM UTC

barbazoo wrote: post #171

Getting all these reports about atrocities, I wonder if the conflict in the area has grown more brutal over the decades or if this is just business as usual. I'm in my late 30s, growing up in the EU, the conflict in the region was always present. I don't remember hearing the kind of stories that come to light these days though, indiscriminate killings, food and water being targeted, aid workers being killed. I get th…

Post by tguvot » Wed, Apr 03, 2024, 6:20 PM UTC

dang wrote: post #274

tguvot wrote: post #270

Earlier quoted context omitted.

guardian references 972 as source for report. it's not like it's "the guardian" article

Yes, that's why we merged those threads into this one. From https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html : Submitters: " Please submit the original source. If a post reports on something found on another site, submit the latter. " - https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html Readers might still find it helpful to read both pieces, of course.